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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:58
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Halhul, etc.] Here begins a fourth division, or list, of the cities in the mountains. Halhul Jerom calls Ehul, and says f374 there was in his time in the country belonging to Aelia (or Jerusalem) a village by the name of Ahula, near Hebron; and Bethzur, Jerom says f375, was then called Bethseron, a village as you go from Aelia to Hebron, in the twentieth mile, near which was a fountain at the bottom of a mount, where it is said the eunuch was baptized by Philip: he makes mention of another village called Bethsur in the tribe of Judah, a mile from Eleutheropolis. In the Apocrypha: ``So he came to Judea, and drew near to Bethsura, which was a strong town, but distant from Jerusalem about five furlongs, and he laid sore siege unto it.” (2 Maccabees 11:5) it is said to be but five furlongs from Jerusalem, but it must have been at a greater distance; Gedor, of this city, (see Gill on “<061213>Joshua 12:13”).
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